Miss Dorothy Caldwell may have sung a folk song now and again, and she certainly heard enough of them. But that was not her chief business in life.
As a young woman, Dorothy rode through the Kentucky hills with Mary Breckenridge's Frontier Nursing Service, as a senior courrier, bringing medicine to the hollows.
During the second world war, she drove trucks for the Red Cross.
In the fifties she became a teacher. She was, eventually superintendent of schools for Boone County Kentucky.
When arthritis confined her to wheel chair and a nursing home, she became involved with the other patients, keeping them entertained and amused.
She died on March 7. She was 95. Yet another loss from a great generation.